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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "headmasters are unable to cope because the money is not enough. At the same time, they are constrained and they cannot send the children back home to look for money from their parents because this is not allowed. Therefore, you will find teachers who are frustrated because they cannot cope with the large number of children who have been enrolled. They cannot cope with the demands because the teachers’ numbers are not also increasing. So, you will find a situation that is very pathetic. What suffers at the end of the day is the quality of education. Anything that touches on the future of children is a matter that should be taken very seriously by any Government worth its salt. So, this Motion is a wake-up call to the Jubilee Government. It should take the FPE from where the Kibaki regime left it to the next possible level. This possible level is a level dictated by the Constitution. This is not a question of manifesto or policy but it is a requirement of the Constitution that the Jubilee Government provides free, compulsory and quality basic education. That is its obligation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of quality education should concern everyone or every possible stakeholder, including the teachers’ unions. This is an area that the teachers’ unions need to take their time and properly advocate in the strongest possible manner. The problem in this country is that the Government has systematically weakened teachers’ unions starting with the Kibaki regime which went out of its way to weaken the then Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) by promoting the rival Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET). Now, the Uhuru regime has taken over, it wants to go further and split the KNUT so that it does not have the strength to agitate for free and quality primary education---"
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